We spent the last evening of the Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014) at Weinhaus Bluhm, a legendary wine tavern in the old town district of Mainz. Annette had arranged a blind tasting of 9 wines from Rheinhessen. The wines came in 3 flights.
Picture: Weinhaus Bluhm, with Roland Ladendorf
Roland Ladendorf and Weinhaus Bluhm
Mainz in the wine region Rheinhessen is, along with Bilbao in Spain, Bordeaux in France, Cape Town in South Africa, Christchurch in New Zealand, Firenza in Italy, Mendoza in Argentina, Porto in Portugal and San Francisco in the US, one of the 9 wine capitals in the world.
But – except for a recent opening: Laurenz - there are no wine bars in Mainz, as I know them from London, New York City, Berlin or Washington DC. However, there are a large number of wine taverns in Mainz. Typically, wine taverns do not have an elaborated list of wines, nor do they serve fancy and sophisticated food. They serve local wines, at very reasonable prices, typically from a handful of local winemakers that you do not find in the wine guides such as the Gault Millau.
One wine tavern, however, is different and stands out: Weinhaus Bluhm. Because you can get wines of German wine stars like Weingut Klaus Peter Keller, Weingut Kruger Rumpf or Weingut Teschke, just to name a few. Owner and Manager Roland Ladendorf is a wine aficionado and extremely knowledgeable about the wine scene. What he offers, by the glass and by the bottle, is outstanding. In terms of its wine list, Weinhaus Bluhm is a class of itself.
Otherwise, Weinhaus Bluhm is a dark, a bit smoky, very basic tavern. It looks today the same as it looked when I first set foot into the Weinhaus Bluhm as a student of macro-economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. The furniture is functional, used, a bit worn down. Weinhaus Bluhm offers a feeling of well-being and it has a lot of charm. In the summer, you can sit on the cobble stone road outside the tavern on communal benches. It cannot get better. The food at Weinhaus Bluhm is simple and good. It does not reach out for some sophistication, as some of the other wine taverns do. It stays at the more basic range, but at the highest quality level.
The Wine we Tasted
We tasted the following 9 wines, in 3 flights of 3 wines.
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